this afternoon (wednesday 1st), 2.19-2.29pm, and 2.51-2.59pm, on bbc world service radio (repeated 9.20pm, and 10.20pm on the world tonight on bbc radio 4)newshour (presented by owen bennett jones) includes …

“There’s one small strip on the map where the confrontation has congealed into something darker, something heavier. every so often it erupts into scalding violence.
It’s the Gaza strip, home to two million Palestinians, controlled by Israel on three sides, Egypt on a fourth.
The UN has said that the way things are going, the enclave could be unfit for human habitation by 2020.”
“Also, the demolition of the illegal settlement, Amona.”

the bbc states that elor azaria would almost certainly not have been prosecuted if he had not been filmed by b’tselem, without reporting that the military investigation had started before the existence of the film had been made public

this afternoon (wednesday 4th), 2.07-2.19pm, on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by owen bennett jones) leads with …

“For the first time in many years, the United Nations has passed a resolution condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory.The United States abstained on this motion – according to past practice, it would have vetoed it. “

including contributions from …
• us ambassador samantha power
• israeli ambassador danny danon
• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher
• chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat• former us special envoydennis ross(if you missed it, available from 0:01:00 to 0:13:00 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04knm8z#playt=1m5s)(more…)